Window-curtain fixture



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V WINDOW CURTAIN FIXTURE. N0, 306, 773.- Pateg ted Oct. 21, 1884.

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EDIVARD P. PRICE AND DUDLEY REED, OF CANTON, OHIO.

VVINDOW CURTAIN FIXTURE.

ErPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,773, dated October 21, 1884-.

Applicaiion filed June 24, 1884.

To all whom it uty concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD l. ln'ion and DUDLEY Rnnn, citizens of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of. Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vindew-Curtain Fixtures, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front view of a window and its casing having our improved curtain-fixtures applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. I; is a front view of a portion of the casing having a modified form of the device applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the casting carrying the roller used near the top of the casing. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the sliding roller-bracket and the block which carries it shown in Figs. land 2. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the rollenbracket and its carrier shown in Fig. 3.

In the drawings, A represents the window casing, Bthe sash, and O the curtain. The curtain-roller is mounted in brackets D D, attached to, or preferably formed with, sliding blocks or carriers E E. These carriers travel upon guides or raYils F, supported upon the window-casing at its opposite ends in sockets y, and intermediately by screws f, passing through the rails and into the casing.

G is a casting attached to the upper part of the casing, and having a socket, g, in which the upper end of the rail F rests, and provided also with a forwardly-projecting plate, 9,

from which extend cars 9 between which is mounted a roller or pulley, II. There is one of these castings G at the end of each rail F upon opposite sides of the window.

I I are cords attached by means of eyes or apertures to carriers or blocks E, and passing over pulleys II to one side of the casing, where they are connected with a single cord, 1, which passes downwardly to a cord clamping or fastening device, J. It will be seen that the cur tain can be elevated or lowered to any desired height and there secured by means of, the above-described devices. The sliding blocks E surround or nearly surround the rails F, and are each provided along its rear face with a slot, 6, which permits them to slide freely past the screws f.

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the curtain-roller at a desired height without strain upon the cords I I, or while the cords are being changed, and to permit this we make the rails F of light elastic material, which may be sprung toward the casing and made to bind the sliding blocks E by turning the screws f. Thisis especially convenient when the cords'become moth-eaten, or from other causes too weak to support the curtain and its fixtures, and it is not possible to im mediately supply new cords.

In Figs. 3 and 6 we have shown a bracket and sliding carrier, E, of somewhat different shape, adapted to be used when the supporting-rails are situated upon the inner edge or face of the casing. In this case the slot 0, which passes over screws f, is formed in one of the side faces of the surrounding part of the carrier. This construction makes a more compactly arranged appliance, and one which can be employedwith inside blinds, K, while in the construction shown in Fig. 1 it cannot be.

.Vhat we claim is 1. The combination of the window-casing, the elastic rails F,attached thereto, the screws 1', passing through the rails and entering the casing, the sliding blocks traveling upon said rails, and the curtainroller-supporting brackots carried by said blocks, said parts being arranged substantially as set forth, to permit the screws to draw the rails toward the casing to bind and hold the sliding blocks, as described.

2. I11 combination with the casing, the rails F, attached to the inside opposing faces of the casing, screws or supports holding said rails away from the casing, sliding blocks E, surrounding said rails, each having one side wall slotted, as at c, to permit the blocks to pass the rail-supports, and roller-supporting bracketsattached to the front walls or faces of the sliding blocks, substantially as set forth.

8. The herein-described sliding block E, adapted to surround and travel upon a guide or rail attached to the inner face of a windowcasing, and having one of its sides slotted, as at e, to permit the block to slide past the guidesupports, and having the side at right angles to the slotted sideprovidcd with a forwardlyprojecting roller-supporting bracket, D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The herein-described casting G, consist iug of the base plate provided with the In testimony whereof \veztliix our signatures socket g, for the reception of the end of rail in presence of two witnesses.

F, a plate, 9', projecting forwardly, and the 1 EDWARD 1. PRICE. ears 9*, projecting from the plate y, and at DUDLEY REED.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY FISHER, .ToirN XV. ALBAUG 11.

right angles thereto, and adapted to support :1- roller, the axis of which is at right angles to the base-plate, substantially as set forth.

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